google-trends-v1/gtm: Functions for Economic Nowcasting with Google Trends Data

This package provides function that helps download Google Trends data to local directories, merge multiple data sets into a single data frame, clean data sets based on certain criteria, and most importantly, construct forecasts and calculate forecasting accuracies based on selected machine learning algorithms.

Getting started

Package details

AuthorZehua Wu [aut, cre]
MaintainerZehua Wu <yxz465y@ucla.edu>
LicenseMIT + file LICENSE
Version1.0.0
Package repositoryView on GitHub
Installation Install the latest version of this package by entering the following in R:
install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("google-trends-v1/gtm")
google-trends-v1/gtm documentation built on June 5, 2019, 5:13 p.m.